Jewish Russian Telegraphtag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-984532015-05-14T11:29:38-04:00News and talk of interest to Russian JewsTypePadNon-Profit Religious School That Doesn't Believe in Gay Marriage? Obama: 'That's Going to be an Issue'tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451af0469e201bb082e6d24970d2015-05-14T11:29:38-04:002015-05-14T11:29:38-04:00The Daily Signal: Is the Obama administration about to wage war on religious schools? One of the more startling portions of oral arguments today at the Supreme Court was the willingness of the Obama administration’s Solicitor General Donald Verrilli, to...PARTNER613Who's Living in Your Dacha?tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451af0469e201bb082e6b50970d2015-05-14T11:18:09-04:002015-05-14T11:18:09-04:00Horst Tappe/Getty,Horst Tappe JRT: Boston College professor, and Russian-Jewish writer Maxim D. Schrayer's short story about the rather famed Russian novelist who took up residence in his Chatham beach house. From Tablet: ...We closed on a dank morning in mid-January...PARTNER613'Better safe than sorry' and what it might mean for the Jews of Russiatag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451af0469e201b7c78a7732970b2015-05-14T11:01:50-04:002015-05-14T11:01:50-04:00JRT: In preparation for the 9th of May, Victory Day, Moscow’s municipal security officials raided the city looking to cleanse it of Nazi propaganda. Security officials weren’t the only ones conducting cleansing. Moscow bookstores removed copies of the graphic novel,...PARTNER613North Korean Defectors Excited for The Interview Filmtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451af0469e201bb07c53c77970d2014-12-15T20:36:07-05:002014-12-15T20:36:07-05:00Isaac Stone Fish writing in Foreign Policy: LONDON—Two buffoonish journalists, played by Seth Rogen and James Franco, travel to North Korea to interview President Kim Jong Un. At the CIA’s request, they assassinate him by — according to leaked emails...PARTNER613Man Who Killed Rudolf Kastner: I Regret Ittag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451af0469e201b8d089573d970c2014-11-03T01:42:23-05:002014-11-03T01:42:23-05:00JRT: Depending on who you ask, Rudolf Kastner was either a saint or a villain. Responsible for making a deal with the Nazis that saved the lives of some 1,600 Jews, he was later accused of withholding information that could...PARTNER613JRT Endorses Charlie Baker and Karyn Polito for Governor and Lt. Governortag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451af0469e201b8d089543a970c2014-11-03T00:52:54-05:002014-11-03T00:52:54-05:00PHOTO: SUZANNE KREITER/BOSTON GLOBE JRT: There is an old Soviet joke that goes like this: Why do we have only one party in the country? Because we can't feed another one. This joke rings especially true in Massachusetts, where the...PARTNER613Mosaic Magazine: What Does the Future Hold for Ukraine's Jews?tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451af0469e201b8d0894e77970c2014-11-02T23:43:53-05:002014-11-02T23:45:42-05:00Jewish refugees from Donetsk in their makeshift apartment in Kiev, Ukraine. Dovid Margolin writing in Mosaic Magazine: The light-haired customs official in Kiev inspected my American passport. As I quickly presented myself as a Russian-speaker, he looked up and asked...PARTNER613Crowd Laughs Out Loud at Jeanne Shaheen During Debate with Scott Browntag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451af0469e201bb079d203b970d2014-10-24T00:20:38-04:002014-10-24T00:20:38-04:00From Breitbart: Sen Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) was laughed at by the audience at the New Hampshire Senate Debate on Tuesday when she would not give a clear answer on whether she approved of the job President Obama is doing. When...PARTNER613Politico: Putin a Dictator Consolidating His Faltering Empiretag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451af0469e201b8d08134c7970c2014-10-20T23:50:05-04:002014-10-20T23:50:05-04:00JRT: Ben Judah has written a powerful piece at Politico Magazine which puts into perspective Vladmir Putin's current predicament: Mr. Putin is attempting to hold together the brittle pieces of his foundationless empire. Yet, as Mr. Judah points out, it...PARTNER613Some People Just Don't Get It: Denmark Welcomes Back Islamic State Terroriststag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451af0469e201b7c6f73ae2970b2014-10-20T23:36:54-04:002014-10-20T23:36:54-04:00JRT: As the Islamic State continues to prove what depths of evil they are capable of reaching, some in the West - like Denmark - still feel the answer is to make nice and hope we can all just get...PARTNER613In Chaos of Ukraine, Dnepropetrovsk Again Stands as a Beacontag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451af0469e201b8d081341f970c2014-10-20T21:55:32-04:002014-10-20T21:56:17-04:00The Dnepropetrovsk Jewish Community's Menorah Center rises above the city. By Dovid Margolin - Chabad.org: DNEPROPETROVSK, Ukraine—From the viewing deck on the 18th floor of the gleaming, seven-tower Menorah Center in Dnepropetrovsk, Rabbi ShmuelKaminezki points to the courtyard of a...PARTNER613Bret Stephens on Obama's Ideological Destruction of the Existing World Ordertag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451af0469e201a73e065e40970d2014-08-22T01:17:04-04:002014-08-22T01:17:04-04:00JRT: Commentary magazine has just published a monumental piece by Wall Street Journal columnist Bret Stephens on the effects - both intended and unintended - of President Barack Obama's world view. Was it the circumstances that Mr. Obama inherited that...PARTNER613A Time to Rethink Abbas as Peace Partner and Other Enlightened Ideastag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451af0469e201a73df44e59970d2014-07-25T13:43:58-04:002014-07-25T14:03:53-04:00JRT: In 2005 Israel unilaterally withdrew from the Gaza Strip. Those on the Left, and even many on the Right, pronounced the withdrawal to be the only way forward for the Jewish State, a step that would give Israel a...PARTNER613Putin is Prisoner of His Own Propaganda tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451af0469e201a511e7fd2d970c2014-07-24T03:35:25-04:002014-07-25T14:04:44-04:00From Julia Ioffe at The New Republic: Did you know Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was full of corpses when it took off from Amsterdam? Did you know that, for some darkly inexplicable reason, on July 17, MH17 moved off the...PARTNER613Bernard-Henri Lévy: Putin, Europe, and the Spirit of Munichtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451af0469e201a3fd3843bc970b2014-07-24T03:14:37-04:002014-07-24T03:15:21-04:00Bernard-Henri Lévy JRT: An Op-ed by the noted French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy on the risks Europe and the world face if they do not hold Vladimir Putin responsible for his actions in Ukraine. Here is a recent profile of Mr....PARTNER613